Hear from an award-winning sea level researcher on efforts to limit climate change and what current government funding cuts might mean for the future for such research.

Professor Benjamin Horton is currently at Rutgers University but is relocating to Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He will talk about doing research on rising sea levels in the wake of climate change. He has been trying to understand and integrate the external and internal mechanisms that have determined sea-level changes in the past, and which will shape such changes in the future. Dr. Horton has won a number of awards for his research. He has deep concerns about the affects of government research funding cuts on the US maintaining it’s current lead in climate research.

Todd Rogers, of Energy Training Solutions and who is an environmental educator and energy auditor for buildings, will discuss a human-centered approach using group motivational strategies to lower the use of energy. This approach contrasts with approaches that give information only, deliver external rewards such as bonuses, or focus on lowering costs. In mid-May, Todd was working in Philadelphia schools using this approach.

Also, individuals involved in the Power Local Green Jobs march including Bill McKibben, Eileen Flanagan, George Lakey, and people at the POWER Philadelphia organization who cosponsored the march and the campaign will be commenting on the recent march.

Tune in to Planet Philadelphia at our wonderful local radio station G-Town Radio 4:00pm www.gtownradio.com to hear these illuminating interviews and more.

Today: Planet Philadelphia streaming on-line on G-Town Radio, 4:00; What Now Environmental and Climate Justice?President Trump wants to get rid of programs to protect us from fossil fuel pollution. This will have a devastating impact on communities that already suffer an out-sized toxic burden.

In today’s Planet Philadelphia host Kay Wood speaks with Jacqueline Patterson, the Director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program. Ms Patterson talks about the heavier burden placed on people of color by toxic facilities and other pollution based health risks right now from fossil fuel use.

Also on Planet Philadelphia today we get an update from the courts. Nate Bellinger, Staff Attorney and State Program Manager of Our Children's Trust lawsuit, discusses the government’s breach of trust with climate change. Lots more interesting environmental news, as well.

Listen to this edition of FabulousPlanet Philadelphia– 12/16/16 – And hear about lead poisoning, and about the recent PA Supreme Court ruling on fracking, and more. In this Planet Philadelphia radio show you’ll hear Kay Wood's interview State Senator Art Haywood about what to do about the high lead levels in school drinking water across the commonwealth. Also on this Planet Philadelphia show Jordan Yeager will tell us about how we have protection for our air and water written into the Pennsylvania Constitution. And how we might use that to help protect us from anti-environmental trends in the new administration in Washington.

Another Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show will run on fabulous G-town Radio early in the New Year – Jan. 6, 2017 – with Mike Ewall, the Founder & Director of the Energy Justice Network talking about strategies for energy justice in the new Trump administration. Also on the January 6th Planet Philadelphia we will hear from Kala Viswanthan, one of the authors of RDC Annual Energy Report about the U.S. Clean Energy Revolution.

In this episode of Planet Philadelphia: First up you’ll hear Michael Nairn, who teaches at the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, talk about how justice needs an equal place in discussions of a sustainable world. Then we’ll hear from Bernie Sanders delegate, Russell Greene, a climate activist who was instrumental in helping to write the Democratic Party platform to recognize that we are in a climate emergency, and that anything short of a World War II-like mobilization will bring catastrophic consequences to civilization.

Thought-provoking interviews on this Planet Philadelphia radio show live streamed on wonderful Gtown Radio April 15th with host Kay Wood. In addition to an interview with Zoë Cina-Sklar from PennEnvironment who spoke on the controversial energy hub and about the potential for 10,000 new green jobs here in Philly, we have Anthony Giancatarino, Director of Policy and Strategy at the Center for Social Inclusion, talking about a just transition to renewable energy.

A great New Planet Philadelphia - hear host Kay Wood's interview with State Senator Art Haywood, 4:00 pm this Friday, April 1st, streaming on Gtown Radio. He's a fabulous guest for this Planet Philadelphia show. State Senator Art Haywood represents our own 4th district in Harrisburg. Listen to host Kay Wood’s interview with the senator as he talks about his views on the proposed and controversial energy hub. Hear his answers not only to Wood’s questions, but also to questions from a number of constituents who contacted Planet Philadelphia with some tough questions of their own about the hub. So it's an exciting new Planet Philadelphia this Friday – 4:00, April 1, 2016 – streaming on wonderful http://www.gtownradio.com/. (Podcast information below.)

Listen live to the next great new Planet Philadelphia radio show about our environment with host Kay Wood, 4:00 pm Friday March 18th streaming on http://www.gtownradio.com/. Sue Caskey, a Mt. Airy resident and environmental science writer, will talk live with Kay about her visit to the AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. Also on this Planet Philadelphia, listen to two great interviews; the first will be with our new Sustainability Director Christine Knapp, who was appointed by Mayor Jim Kenney in January. Then we’ll hear from Dr. Robert P. Hartwig the president of the Insurance Information Institute talks about how the insurance industry is looking at climate change.

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